NEW YORK PRISON ESCAPEE WELL KNOWN IN MATAMOROS

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Richard Matt, one of the two convicted murderers who escaped from a maximum-security prison in New York this past weekend, was well-known in Mexico – a country he apparently loved so much that he inked a tattoo on his back that said: “Mexico Forever.”

A quick look at his rap sheet explains his fondness for the country. Matt has actually spend more time in a Mexican jail, nine years, than in all the American prisons he has served time in since he first entered the correctional system at age 19.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo said Monday that they are looking at the possibility Matt, 49, flees to Mexico. "One of the two (Matt) knows Mexico; they could have gone South," he told CNN during an interview.

Matt's Mexican stint took place between 1998 and 2007 in Matamoros, a border town across Texas where he had fled after abducting, torturing and dismembering 76-year-old William Rickerson in his native Tonawanda, N.Y.

Only a few months after that crime, in a night out in a Matamoros, Matt was arrested and jailed after he killed a fellow American during a bar fight.

He remained jailed in Mexico until 2007, when he was sent back to the United States for Rickerson’s murder 10 years earlier. He was convicted and sentenced to life the following year.

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